First Baptist Church of Altha
First Baptist Church of Altha is a Baptist church at 15660 NW Chipola St in Altha, FL 32421-3256. It is one of 12 churches in Altha, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Called2Serve ministry was established in 2014 here at Altha First Baptist Church, along with sister churches Poplar Head Baptist (in Clarksville) and West Pittman Baptist (in Westville), with the heart of serving and loving on individuals closer to home.
Serving since 2014
15660 NW Chipola St, Altha, FL, 32421-3256Phone: +18507623348 · Website: https://althafirstbaptist.com/
First Baptist Church of Altha is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Ministries at First Baptist Church of Altha
- Called2Serve
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Upcoming events at First Baptist Church of Altha
- Thu, Aug 6 · 6 PM: Young Adults
- Sat, Aug 8 · 7 PM: Evening Prayer Service
- Sun, Aug 9 · 9:45 AM: Sunday School
- Sun, Aug 9 · 11 AM: Morning Worship Service
- Sun, Aug 9 · 6 PM: R.O.C.K. Youth (6th-12th grade)
From First Baptist Church of Altha's public calendar (https://althafirstbaptist.com/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around First Baptist Church of Altha
It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Child Poverty: 24.8% (7.7–42.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Poverty Rate: 18.6% (11.4–25.8%)
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (5.7–17.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Altha
- Chipola Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Altha Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Sunny Hill Church — 3.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 3.5 mi away in Marianna, FL
- Hasty Pond Church — 3.9 mi away in Marianna, FL
- Page Pond Assembly of God — 4.5 mi away
- Victory Hill Penecostal Holiness Church — 4.5 mi away
- Macedonia's First Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Antioch Church — 5.7 mi away in Marianna, FL
- New Zion Church — 6.6 mi away in Blountstown, FL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Chipola Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hasty Pond Church — 3.9 mi away in Marianna, FL
- Macedonia's First Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away